ACT's THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING: Beyond the Theatre
A Contemporary Theatre presents PASS OVER by Antoinette Nwandu from May 31 to June 23, 2019. Librarians at The Seattle Public Library created this resource list of books, music, and films to enhance your experience of the show.
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The Year of Magical Thinking
The script of THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, for your reading pleasure.
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The Art of Losing
The Art of Losing includes poetry about the various stages of grief, with 150 selections from a variety of 20th- and 21st-century poets.
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Life After Life
This critically acclaimed genre-bender follows Ursula Todd through her many lives and deaths. Ursula dies promptly after she's born on a snowy evening in 1910 in England. The next time she's born, on the same evening, she lives for a few years before drowning. Ursula dies and is reborn into the same life over and over again, experiencing love, loss, and grief from a truly unique perspective.
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The Other Side of Sadness
Psychologist Bonanno examines the commonly held belief that grief is processed in five stages, proposing that this model of grieving discounts humanity's "remarkable capacity for resilience [and that grief] can actually deepen interpersonal connections and, in some cases, leads to a profound new sense of meaning in life." -- Basic Books
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Tell the Wolves I'm Home
This moving coming-of-age novel chronicles teenage June's struggles with grief and acceptance after her beloved uncle Finn dies of AIDS in 1987. "After a stranger is seen at Finn's funeral, June receives a letter from a man who turns out to be Finn's partner. So begins a unique, magically rendered friendship, as painful on the trials of adolescence as it is about impending mortality." --The Guardian
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The Descendants
Based on a novel of the same name by Kaui Hart Hemmings, this film explores the aftermath of a deadly boat accident. With his wife in a coma that she'll never recover from, Matt King is left to parent his two young daughters while grappling with his own grief and anger.
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Blue Nights
Didion's lyrical memoir of her daughter Quintana Roo's long illness and death just twenty months after her husband's fatal heart attack is both devastating and moving.
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The Year of Magical Thinking
These original essays were subsequently adapted into the play of the same name.
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True Confessions
Dunne and Didion were one of--if not the--literary power couples of their time. TRUE CONFESSIONS, based on the infamous Black Dahlia murder, is one of Dunne's most well-known works.
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In the Bedroom
"This perfectly observed, wrenchingly acted drama about a middle-class New England couple coping with the murder of their 21-year-old son cuts to the quick."--The New York Times
Format: Streaming Video
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